It’s Baby Yoda. Sorry you don’t like it.

That reminds me of this, with its catchy-as-fuck music:

“Danielle noted on Twitter that she and Rostam chose to lean into the song’s vague resemblance to Lou Reed’s “Walk On the Wild Side” as they were reworking the original demo: “We were kinda joking about how the ‘doot doot doot’ part reminded us of ‘Walk on the Wild Side’ and then he put this stand-up bass part on top…

Thank you.

Despite being in 16-bit, I still teared up when the portals opened, and nearly all-out cried at “Avengers... ...assemble”

I hope the new epoch of the MCU can remedy the situation such that it will be just as likely to have a room full of women sitting around discussing plans to save the universe as it was for the men in the Infinity Epoch. (Or, you know, just better representative balance...) With Captain Marvel as the new uber of the…

Texas tea.

This review made this movie sound oddly appealing

I hope she leaves to join the police academy, then come back as a full-time cast member!

and was that Third Eye Blind, perchance?

Yodin.

Meanwhile, I feel that nominating “Jesus Walks” involves either being so far up Kanye’s ass as to being mistaken for the pharynx, or just being completely oblivious to the rest of recorded musical history... but yeah, cool... 

Okay, that’s cool. I respect that. As long as the intention was good. (I also hold “Bad Romance” over “Paparazzi”.) 

I actually find this a fascinating topic. I realize the difficulty in defining a thing like this, and I’m not looking for an ‘argument’ in the combative sense, as much as the, “discovering our intuitions about this, where they come from, and what can we agree on” sense of it.

Potential strawman there. Is “Edge of Glory” the Gaga standard? (I would submit either “Bad Romance” or “Paparazzi”.)

I agree here with Myles, I had never even heard of this song before now.

Okay. Wow. So, I will reply to this particular comment because it both addresses issues I want to raise, and it appreciates Gaga.

Pop music. Questions for discussion.

1) Is pop music, by definition, bad music?
2) Regardless of your answer to question 1, on the spectrum of pop music, what makes some pop music better than…

Okay; well if you’re going to define “pop song” in a way that emphasizes the qualities that this one particular song has, then you’ve got me.

...“Since U Been Gone,” the best pop song of the 21st century...

I love every bit of this, because I agree with all of it.